Terms of Service for the Jobs-database.de API

§ 1 Scope

These terms apply to all contracts for the use of the data API and related services of jobs-database.de (Free API, Starter, Pro, Custom) between the provider and its customers.

The offer is aimed exclusively at businesses within the meaning of § 14 German Civil Code (BGB). No contracts are concluded with consumers (§ 13 BGB). By ordering, the customer confirms that it acts in the course of its commercial or independent professional activity.

Different or additional terms of the customer apply only if the provider has expressly agreed to them in text form.

§ 2 Contract formation

The presentation of plans on the website is not a binding offer. By placing an online order or requesting an API key, the customer makes an offer to enter into a contract. The contract is concluded when the provider confirms the order or activates the API key.

The contract text is not stored separately; the terms in force are available on this page. For a Custom plan, the individually agreed contract applies in addition and prevails in case of conflict.

§ 3 Plans and quotas

The service descriptions published on the pricing page (jobs-database.de/pricing) at the time of the order apply:

• Free API: free of charge, 10,000 jobs per week per API key (daily budget). Apply links go through our redirect.
• Starter: US$40 per month including 20,000 delivered jobs; beyond that US$2.00 per additional 1,000 delivered jobs. Direct employer apply URLs, webhooks for new and closed jobs, email support, no attribution notice required in the customer's product.
• Pro: same features as Starter, from 100,000 delivered jobs per month, priced on the scale published on the pricing page (e.g. US$190 per month at 100,000 jobs); from 1,000,000 jobs per month by Custom quote only.
• Custom: scope and price as set out in a separate contract.

A "delivered job" is a distinct job returned to the customer in the calendar month; retrieving the same job again is not counted again.

The provider may change or discontinue the free plans and their quotas at any time with effect for the future; § 13 remains unaffected for paid plans.

§ 4 Prices, VAT, payment

All prices are net prices in US dollars. The provider is a small business; in accordance with § 19 UStG (German VAT Act) no value-added tax is charged or shown.

Paid plans are billed monthly in advance. Usage-based overage (Starter) is invoiced after the end of the billing month. Invoices are sent electronically and are payable within 14 days without deduction, unless a payment service provider collects the payment directly during checkout.

In case of late payment the provider may suspend access until the amounts due are paid. Statutory default claims remain unaffected.

§ 5 Term and cancellation

Paid plans run for an indefinite period and renew by one billing month at a time. The customer may cancel at any time, effective at the end of the current billing month, in text form (email to [email protected]) or, once offered, in the customer area. Amounts already paid for the current month are not refunded.

The provider may cancel paid plans with 30 days' notice to the end of a billing month. The right of both sides to terminate for good cause remains unaffected.

Either side may end a free plan at any time.

§ 6 Usage rights

For the term of the contract the provider grants the customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the data delivered through the API in its own products and for internal purposes, including in applications and websites that the customer offers to its end users.

Not permitted: resale, redistribution or publication of the raw data as a dataset (for example as a file, a database or a data API of its own), sublicensing the data as such, and building a competing offering from the raw data. Redistribution is permitted only under an express agreement within a Custom plan.

On the Free API the customer must output apply links unchanged through the provider's redirect and, where the pricing page provides for it, credit the provider as the source. On Starter and Pro both duties do not apply.

Rights of third parties (in particular employers) in the content of individual job postings remain unaffected.

§ 7 Availability

The Free API is provided without any availability commitment.

For Starter the provider pursues an availability target. This target is an objective only, not a guaranteed quality or warranty, and no credits or damages are attached to it.

For Pro the provider guarantees availability of the API of 99.5% per calendar month (UTC). The guarantee applies for the first time to the calendar month of November 2026.

• Measurement: once a minute the provider checks, via the public route (the public internet through Cloudflare, not the origin server's internal address), whether the public service is reachable. A minute without a successful check counts as unavailable. Availability is the share of minutes in the calendar month with a successful check. The provider publishes the monthly figures at jobs-database.de/en/status.
• Excluded from downtime: announced maintenance (at most 4 hours per calendar month, announced at least 48 hours ahead by email or on the status page), and outages caused by the customer, by force majeure, or by the data sources (employers' career pages and their applicant tracking systems). The guarantee covers the provider's API answering, not the completeness or timeliness of source data (see § 8).

If availability in a calendar month falls below 99.5%, the customer receives, on request, a credit on the Pro fee of the following month: 10% if below 99.5%, 25% if below 99.0%, 50% if below 95.0% of the Pro fee of the month in which the shortfall occurred. The credit per month is capped at 50% of that month's fee. The request must be sent by email to [email protected] within 30 days after the end of the calendar month; after that the claim lapses.

The credit is the customer's sole and exclusive remedy for unavailability of the API; further claims for unavailability are excluded. § 10 remains unaffected, as does the right to cancel under § 5.

An individually agreed service level agreement (SLA) exists only in the Custom plan on the basis of the contract concluded there.

Other maintenance work and disruptions outside the provider's control (for example at network operators or hosting providers) are reserved, to the extent they do not count as downtime under the paragraphs above.

§ 8 Data accuracy

Job postings come from employers' publicly accessible career pages and their applicant tracking systems and are collected and processed automatically. The provider gives no warranty for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or availability of the content of individual postings; a job may already be closed when it is retrieved. Liability under § 10 remains unaffected.

§ 9 Customer duties

• The customer keeps its API key secret, protects it from unauthorised access and does not share it with third parties outside its company. It informs the provider without delay if it suspects misuse.
• The customer does not put abusive load on the API (for example by circumventing quotas, using several keys to evade limits or extremely high request rates) and observes published rate limits.
• The customer does not use the services or data unlawfully, in particular not for unlawful solicitation, discrimination, or for identifying and harassing individuals, and complies with the laws applicable to its use (for example data protection law).

The customer is itself the controller under the GDPR for personal data contained in job postings (such as a contact person named in a posting) that it processes further in its product.

§ 10 Liability

The provider is liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under mandatory statutory provisions (for example the Product Liability Act) and where it has given a guarantee.

In cases of slight negligence the provider is liable only for breach of essential contractual obligations (Kardinalpflichten), meaning obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on which the customer may regularly rely. In that case liability is limited to the typical, foreseeable damage.

Otherwise liability for slight negligence is excluded. For the free plans this applies to the extent permitted by law.

The foregoing also applies in favour of the provider's legal representatives and vicarious agents.

§ 11 Suspension for misuse

The provider may suspend access temporarily or permanently if the customer breaches § 6 or § 9, endangers or heavily burdens the systems, or is in default of payment despite a reminder. For a temporary suspension the provider will, where possible, inform the customer beforehand and lift the suspension once the reason has ceased. The obligation to pay for paid plans continues until the end of the contract.

§ 12 Discontinuation of the service

If the provider intends to discontinue the service or a paid plan, it notifies paying customers by email at least 90 days in advance. This commitment takes precedence over the provider's notice period under § 5. During that period the service keeps running unchanged under these terms.

At the end of the notice period every paying customer may request one final full export of the active jobs within the scope of its plan. The customer may keep using that export for its own purposes, subject to the usage restrictions of § 6 (in particular no resale and no redistribution as a dataset).

The provider refunds fees paid in advance for the period after the discontinuation pro rata.

§ 13 Changes to these terms and to the services

The provider may change these terms with effect for the future. It notifies existing customers of changes by email at least six weeks before they take effect. They are deemed approved if the customer does not object in text form within that period; the notice will draw particular attention to this consequence. If the customer objects, either side may terminate the contract as of the date the change would take effect; until then the previous version applies. The customer's right to cancel under § 5 remains unaffected.

Price increases for paid plans take effect at the earliest after the period in the first sentence and only with the same right to object and terminate.

§ 14 Final provisions

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

The exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from or in connection with the contract is Frankfurt am Main, provided the customer is a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law.

If individual provisions are invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.

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